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I ran a couple of Skype games last year, but really I stay away from playing RPGs online. To me, they need to be played in person with people actually looking at and talking to each other. Online should just be for the discussion about the games.

http://www.lotfp.com/images/dump/LotFPGameWorking.pdf

Version 0.05 up.

Hmm, yes, good point about the faster leveling. Maybe I should just allow one point to be put on attack bonus, ever, or just take out the attack bonus thing altogether.

You make it sound so confused when you put it like that.

I just call it, "aiming to make a complete game that stands on its own."

It's not so much a dislike of halflings as an idea, but the unwillingness to "awesome them up" in comparison to other races for the sake of balance.

However, the last go-through makes their saving throws the best in the game, by a significant margin. Whether that's a tradeoff for the lack of other useful qualities, I don't know, but it is an advantage that is in line with source material and the generally assumed nature of halflings.

As far as the Insect Shrine (and Hammers of the God will hit first and have bits about that same history), I fully expect to catch shit for what I have to say about the halflings of antiquity. I fear people just won't accept it.

Taking a nod from Swords & Wizardry, the next draft of the rules includes both (might as well since my adventures give AC descriptions rather than hard numbers anyway). The trick will be to integrate this smoothly throughout the rules where AC is mentioned.

I'll have a more in-depth response to other things later on, but I want to address this real quick.

In using different material for different games, this kind of thing happens anyway. I used Pod Cavers (an OSRIC module) with the BFRPG rules for my home game last year. It causes little hiccups, I guess the same way as trying to run Horror on the Hill in an AD&D campaign, or running Swords and Wizardry modules with Labyrinth Lord.

I don't see much difference. It'll take some eyeballing, but I daresay running an LotFP adventure with LotFP rules would need a "stop and take a look at this" because of the way the adventures are constructed, regardless of the rules.

It comes down to the fact that in a fight, the fighter needs to be far and away the best. There shouldn't be any competition there, as that's the class' whole "special thing." Now dwarfs are basically fighters with their knees cut off, and elves have the big XP requirement difference, but the other human classes all have their things, which shouldn't involve competing with the fighter for the ability to fight.

It also makes the normal human a more formidable opponent, and stabilizes the game world I think, if not every single character on Earth can fearlessly go toe-to-toe with a 0 level well equipped soldier.

Adding more stuff increases complication, I think. It was easier to just do away with any weapon restrictions and give the fighters a combat edge using the standard system. I think the next steps of revision will be to make the rules leaner, to take away and whittle down.

http://www.lotfp.com/images/dump/LotFPGameWorking.pdf

Version 0.03 is up.

I made some mistakes concerning the OGL and Open Game Content with the previous files that needs to be fixed. I hope to have an updated version up by the end of the week, head cold permitting.

I'm not sure if I've mentioned this, but pure typo corrections are not necessary at this point. The work hasn't been properly edited yet and won't be until the rules are all in place. I fear that typo-hunting efforts will be wasted if sections are changed entirely or even removed.

When everything is ready and has been edited on this end, I'll announce a community proofreading effort (which I'll label a "contest")... the top 3 errorfinders will get a free copy of the box.

Not ready for that though.

Commentary on the rules themselves, and pointing out confusing explanations, that's what I'm after at this point.

>>Started going over every single spell description, lost the ability to understand what I was reading

Yeah, I can definitely relate. This part took far longer than I figured for just that reason.

>>Aino's Remote Surveillance:

Ahh, good points. I'd think no, no, and no.

>>Airy Water

Watery air? I think that would be a bit odd, having some fish-creature wandering around in a bubble of thick air.. hmm..

>>Animate Dead

Definitely that many hit dice per casting. No alignment restrictions on the spell... I can think of three references where the dead are summoned for completely above-board reasons (two in SSOC, one in OOTS oddly enough, haha).

As for the details in some spells, the bulk of most of the spell descriptions were taken from existing Open Game Content, Labyrinth Lord and OSRIC 1 mostly. I compared which versions made the most sense, and which filled in the needed details. For Fireball, I thought the blowback detail was important. For Animate Objects, some indication of what exactly happens when things animate is nice.

You will notice that the higher level the spell goes, the less tinkering I've done - due to having little experience running high level characters. This does mean that the Clone vibe is in no way mine.

But point taken on the Polymorph. I'll revisit it for sure.

Some of these will probably be rewritten, but for this go-round I was just wanting the spells all in there with the changes I was going to make to the important ones that get used a lot in pretty much every campaign.

>>did you intend Jalo’s AA to be able to re-create a specific person?

I suppose it could, but it's for a limited time and the art would have to be magnificent for the person to be recreated exactly. Although, now that I think of it, wizards with this spell are going to become quite the collectors and patrons of fine art, aren't they?

Feather Fall: A leve 1 MU can float 400 pounds. If they're fatter than that, they have to wait until level 2.

>>Interesting that you went w/ increasing dmg done by a missile rather than # of missiles.

Every version and edition has its own quirk of when the caster gets additional missiles. To hell with remembering that. One missile, escalating power, no fuss, no muss.

>>Silence 15' radius: I seem to recall a controversy as to whether the original intent was a means of being sneaky, or a way for clerics to neutralize MUs.

Both. Casters do need to speak out to cast spells.

>>Can we once & for all change continual light to continuous light? It's not a bloody strobe.

How do you know?

>>3 things unclear w/ Dispel Magic: 1. "any spell-casting class" Does this mean that spells cast by, e.g., a dragon or demon are unaffected by dispel magic? 2. "scrolls are permanently nullified." Does this mean only that they can't be read out loud to cast whatever spell is on them, but can still be copied into a spellbook, or does the writing go away too? 3. "negates magical cures or diseases for only 2d6 turns." 1st level fighting woman has 5 hit points. She takes 3, the cleric cures her for 2, bringing her to 4. Next round she takes 3 more dmg, bringing her down to 1. Round after that, some smart-ass MU dispels the cure, temporarily taking her to -1. Is she alive, dead, undead, temporarily dead, mostly dead, grateful dead, or what?

1- If it memorizes/prepares spells, they're affected. If it has innate powers, I'd say not. I should think on this and clarify... 2- Scroll all gone. Can't be used for anything. Well, maybe mapping at that point. 3- That should be "curses or diseases." This is one of those typos that's important at this stage.

>>While I imagine I'm in the minority, I'd recommend against the whole organize-spells-alphabetically (instead of by class & level) thing. Never been a fan.

AD&D's spell organization has always been a pain in the ass to look things up in play. Even Labyrinth Lord, which has all the spells alphabetically but split between Cleric and MU, has given me problems. I find that in play the one large list makes things easy.

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